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In this essay, it will be argued that Wolf is simply wrong in encouraging every young woman to allow her shadow slut to emerge as a means of achieving sexual liberation and freedom from male domination. While Naomi Wolf may be correct in her belief that ôit is neither natural nor inevitable that women's lust should be punished, she is simply wrong in calling for women to embrace so-called slutty behavior as an act of personal liberation.

Many films, television programs, books, songs, and paintings tend to depict women in Western society as little more than sexual objects. Christine Bold makes reference to the James Bond films as examples of how women are often reduced to little more than sexual objects, noting that ôwhatever skills female characters demonstrate, however, their one great prowessà resides in their bodies.ö The bodies of the James Bond books and films are ôdesigned to pleasure othersö and the women in these books and films are objectified and made into little more than children despite their clear sexual maturity.

What Wolf would argue is that women should embrace this image in order to free themselves. It d

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e contemporary slenderness ideal than men are, as they typically have been by beauty ideals in general. It is far more important to men than to women that their partner be slim.ö BordoÆs discussion of womenÆs physical appearance illustrates an important fact. Women in Western culture do tend to accept as valid male ideals of what constitutes female beauty. If this is likely to damage women by forcing them to diet or exercise to excess and endanger their health in the process, it is clear that such behavior is wrong. At the same time, if men send women the message that they may want to go to bed with a slut, but will not marry her or respect her, women would be poorly advised to adopt the attitudes or behaviors of the slut. How do males really feel about sluts and girls who act like sluts: Marty Beckerman gives a humorous description of his own feelings in a discussion of his ideal prom date ôà but none of my friends are dirty, filthy prostitutes, and I'm getting pretty darn set on taking a dirty, filthy prostitute to prom. So I guess I'll just have to go ahead and hunt me down a dirty, filthy prostitute beforeù" "Fine!" Mommy bangs her fists against the dinner table. "You just go ahead and do what you want.
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